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Excerpt from Treatment of Chronic Leg Ulcers: A Practical Guide to Its Symptomatology, Diagnosis and Treatment <p>I. Predisposing Causes: (3) General, compris ing age, sex, occupation and social condition. <p>Age can hardly be considered as a very import ant factor, except that Old age is accompanied by retrogressive tissue changes, atheroma of the arteries, impaired circulation, etc.; and one would therefore expect the statistics to show a greater proportion of ulcers during the latter decades of life. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.